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- From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
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- Subject: Re: PL/I and C
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 00:58:27 GMT
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- In-reply-to: VArase@varase.it.luc.edu's message of Fri, 23 Feb 1996 12:59:23 -0600
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- In article <AD536AAB9668B76CD@mcdialb09.it.luc.edu>
- VArase@varase.it.luc.edu (Verne Arase) writes:
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- VA: In article <312CCEB2.4AB7@corp.dialog.com>,
- VA: Paul Gorodyansky <paul_gorodyansky@corp.dialog.com> wrote:
- VA:
- VA: >In PL/I, you can consider your source record as a string,
- VA: >or as SEVERAL different complex Structures, using Based variables.
- VA: >C has it, too, but with a BIG limitation - if you want to put
- VA: >SEVERAL different 'masks' over your buffer, C allows ONLY simple
- VA: >variables as items of these structures, not Arrays !
- VA:
- VA: Actually, this is incorrect.
- VA:
- VA: In fact, if I recall correctly a pointer to x is implicitly an array.
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- Could either of you provide examples of what you mean? I am lost ...
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- Cheers
- Tanmoy
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